Improved shelving for stores



dn'te gwna Letters Patent No. 92,731, dated July 20, 1869.

IMPROVED SHELVING- FOR STORES.

The Sehedule refen'ed to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

- tov the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a room to which our improveel shelving has been attached, taken through the line-x-z, fig. 2. v

Figure 2 is a cross-section of the same, taken through the line (zl-y, fig. 1.

Figures 3 and 4 are detail top views, illustrating different ways of closing the sections of shelves. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. f

Our iuvention has for its object to furnish an improved mode of coustructing store-shelves, which will enable the shelves and the goods which they contain to be quickly removed from the` store, should it become necessary, on account of fire or ot-her accident; and 1 It consists in constructing the shelving iu sections, providedl at their lower and upper ends, either or both, with friction-wheels, as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents the side, and

B, the front of a store or other room.

O is the shelving, which is made in sections, entirely independent of each other. and of 'the walls of the room.

The sections O should be made of such a size that they may be conveniently handled, and have attached to them friction-wheels, or rollers D, upon which they may be moved into and out of place, said Wheels rolling upon tracks, or ways formed upon the fioor of the building.

vpose set forth.

To the top of the sections O are pivoted friction- Wheels E, rolling along a guide or way attached tothe ceiling of the room, said guide not only serving as a track for the friction-wheels, but also as a 'guard tokeep the sections in a Vertical position when in use.

In the 'front of the building, directly opposite the end of the shelving, should -be formed a' door, hinged at its' lower end, and secured with suitable fasteniugs, which, when opeued, may serve as a track for removiug the sections O:

When the shelves are to be filled with light goods, the sections O may be hinged to each other, two by two, so that they may be closed face to face, and secured to each other, thus protecting the goods and foldin'g` the shelving into a convenient form for handling.

'When the shelves are to be filled with heavy goods, each section should be provided with a cover, c', hinged to it in such a wa that when not required for use it may be turned back along the back of the shelves, sol

as to be entirely out of the way and out of sight.

By this construction and arrangement of the shelving, should there be occasion, on account of fire or other cause, all the stock of goods may be rcmoved from the building very easily and quickly, and conveyedto a place of safety, without loss or damage.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Oonstructing the shelviug in sections 0,*provided with friction-wheels D an'l E, either or both, substantially as herein shown and described,and for the pur- WILLIAM KOC'H.v

a GEORGE KOCE.

Witnesses: i

ALEX. SHANNON, ALFRED KocH. 

